THE AFRICAN STORY ADVERTISE WITH US DON’T BE LEFT BEHIND ISSUE NUMBER 752 VOLUME 2 18 JAN - 24 JAN 2020 Zambia urged to authenticate Covid 19 Vaccine before use on citizens page 4 Looking at Bobi Wine and how he has shaken up Ugandan politics UGANDA ELECTIONS: MUSEVENI WINS page 9 SIXTH TERM- RIVAL ALLEGES President Lungu FRAUD commended for sacking Health minister over • Ugandan opposition party says it will challenge presidential election result corruption • Some observers’ allege “electoral process has been fundamentally flawed” page 7 2 Echo Report Echo Newspaper 18 JAN - 24 JAN 2020 THE AFRICAN STORY News, Finance, Travel and Sport Telephone: (267) 3933 805/6. 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Echo Newspaper welcomes concise letters from readers. a decisive election victory to credibility and transparency, safety.” Wine, whose real name is Robert Letters must carry the win a sixth term. The country’s after scores of requests for Museveni argued in the campaign Kyagulanyi, has said he has video full name and address of election commission announced accreditation to monitor the that his long experience makes proof of voting fraud that he will the sender. Letters must the results on Saturday, but his election were denied. him a good leader and promised share once internet connections conform to the laws of main rival Bobi Wine denounced The United States and an to keep delivering stability and are restored. Botswana and to the Press Council of Botswana’s Code the results as fraudulent and African election monitoring progress. He told Reuters on Saturday that Of Ethics. Letters will also be urged citizens to reject them. group complained of election Wearing his signature hat and his campaign has evidence that edited for length, libel and Ugandan opposition leader Bobi irregularities. speaking from his rural home the military forced people at language. Wine’s party said on Sunday that Britain said it was concerned by on Saturday evening, Museveni gunpoint to vote for Museveni it was preparing to challenge a national internet shutdown criticised “the elite” for problems and engaged in ballot stuffing President Yoweri Museveni’s that began the day before the with the national education and and other rigging. election victory and condemned vote, and that it said constrained health systems and noted that The electoral commission said what it called the house arrest freedoms and “clearly limited the Uganda has surplus supplies of on Friday that under Ugandan of Wine and his wife. transparency of the elections”. sugar, milk and maize. law, the burden of proof rested “We have evidence of ballot In a statement, British Minister Reprising a familiar refrain, he with Wine. stuffing and other forms of for Africa James Duddridge said he is not in government The Africa Elections Watch election malpractice and after also called for concerns about to enjoy a good life, which he coalition, which deployed 2,000 putting it together we are going the election process to be has as a farmer, but rather to observers in 146 districts, said to take all measures that the investigated. address historical challenges. in a statement that they had Read more Echo law permits to challenge this Wine, a 38-year-old singer- The government banned all observed irregularities, including stories on our fraud,” Maathias Mpuuga of turned-lawmaker who had social media and messaging the late opening of most polling Facebook page by Wine’s National Unity Party rallied young Ugandans behind apps on Tuesday. On Wednesday stations, missing ballot papers, said on Sunday. his call for political change, called it ordered the internet shut off and illegally opened ballot boxes. scanning the QR The 76-year-old Museveni, in the results a “complete fraud”. and has not yet restored it. The African Union also sent an code below with power since 1986 and one of “It’s an election that was taken After the results were announced, observer mission but had no your mobile phone Africa’s longest-serving leaders, over by the military and the many neighbourhoods in comment yet on the vote. dismissed the allegations of police,” he said in a phone normally bustling Kampala The U.S. State Department’s fraud in an evening address to interview from inside his home were unusually quiet as nightfall top diplomat for Africa, Tibor the nation, saying Thursday’s in the capital, Kampala, which approached. Soldiers and police Nagy, said in a tweet on Saturday election may turn out to be the was surrounded by soldiers who who had patrolled throughout that the “electoral process has “most cheating free” in Uganda’s he said had forbidden him from the day remained on the streets been fundamentally flawed”. history. leaving. in large numbers, witnesses said. He cited fraud reports, denial The Electoral Commission said “It further exposes how “These gunmen are all over of accreditation to observers, final counts showed Museveni dictatorial the Museveni and they are ready to kill,” said violence and harassment of won 5.85 million votes, or 58.6%, regime is,” added Wine, who Innocent Mutambi, 26, a welder. opposition members, and the while Wine had 3.48 million campaigned to end what he “I am sure what they announced arrest of civil society activists. votes (34.8%). called widespread corruption. is false, but right now we can’t The campaign was marked by a “It’s a mockery of democracy.” take them on, they will kill us.” (Reuters.) Echo Newspaper 18 JAN - 24 JAN 2020 Echo Report 3 4 Echo Report Echo Newspaper 18 JAN - 24 JAN 2020 commission has been the Zambia urged to authenticate Covid 19 investigating the honeybee pharmacy business deal since august last year. Chikuse has also advised Vaccine before use on citizens the ACC not to disappoint the general public by again turning With the focus for many the view that transparency in to be the first to access the He adds that Journalists face themselves into witnesses for countries now on securing the the entire process will help to covid-19 vaccination in an effort the danger of contracting the the accused should the case be Covid-19 vaccines for their discount various conspiracy to convince other journalists virus in their routine assignments established as was witnessed citizens, following the recent theories circulating on social in the country to follow suit on a daily basis and must the last time the former health global spike in the number cases media suggesting that the to ensure protection against access the vaccine to ensure minister Chitalu Chilufya first which have led to fresh lock covid-19 vaccine destined for the virus. no media personnel are lost to appeared in court on corruption downs, a general concern on the Africa is meant for population ZUJ Vice President Alex the pandemic. And Governance allegations. safety of the approved Vaccines. control purposes and not to Basopo has told phoenix news Activist Leslie Chikuse has In an interview with phoenix In Zambia, a governance activist protect people against the that social media claims and advised the Anti-Corruption news, Chikuse wonders why Reuben Lifuka has implored pandemic. conspiracy theories surrounding Commission -ACC- to expedite ACC has taken this long to government to authenticate In an interview with Phoenix the covid-19 vaccine remain investigations into the US$17 investigate the matter when the covid-19 vaccine before News, Lifuka has warned unsubstantiated hence the million medical supplies it did not take long the public administering it on its citizens. against making it mandatory to need for journalists in Zambia scandal involving Honey Bee accounts committee hearing He further called on government administer the vaccine to citizens to be vaccinated so that they Pharmacy now that there is to establish an alleged case of on a comprehensive sensitisation saying this might raise other are protected as they execute enough evidence on the matter corruption in the whole deal. campaign to provide citizens with suspicions with the diminishing their duties. as was revealed by the Public He notes that the fact that the right information regarding confidence in the country’s Basopo says the entire ZUJ Accounts Committee -PAC- the Ministry of Health has also the safety of individuals after ministry of health following Executive is available to be the hearing recently. started recalling the medical getting vaccinated. the recent honeybee defective first recipients of the vaccine to supplies by HoneyBee Pharmacy This comes after the Ministry of condoms and drugs scandal.